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Mexico VS USA
Though you lost I remember the free kick
They built a wall but you smashed a ball through it
A Walmart truck driver from Tijuana felt the riches for a moment.
Faroe Islands VS Denmark
Though they thrashed you like waves on hulls on your trawlers
Your sweat glimmered like fishes in the goal net five times in floodlights
By Wednesday you returned to the harbour and three men gave you a heroes welcome.
England Vs Croatia
Though we left Europe like a rope frayed from snapping
We found our way home through dirty blue shallows and Brexit
Our country meant something and white and black skins replaced red white and blue
Five Girls Vs Four Boys from Walthamstow
All of you won the moment you decided to play
Jennifer skinned Raj and they all took the piss laughing for ages.
That night when the moon was full and their bellies rumbling with thunder
They picked up the ball in a hedgerow of drug foil and chose the right path home.
Peace Poet Antony Owen 